Northern capital and energy were likely to have still finer openings within a few months, than any that the confusion of a captured city and the chaos of constantly shifting military government had afforded.
Reid reflects on the potential for Northern investment in the South post-Civil War.
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Fully believing the debts of their Rebel Government legal and just, they were prepared to repudiate them at a hint from Washington.
They have covered many phases of the subject, but have preserved a singular uniformity of purpose and consistency of ideas throughout.
That would be “jumping from the frying-pan into the fire,” indeed.
We are all washed under, and the most of us only live peaceable lives by the sufferance of our Rebel neighbors.